For the past couple of weeks, I've been quite devotedly watching past seasons of the miraculously witty show "Psych". The show is centered around a man who is a freakishly observant goofball.
He did poorly in school, dropped out of college, worked a variety of jobs for which he quickly lost interest, lived in several countries, and finally found his calling in pretending to be a psychic to assist the police in solving crimes.
The entire premise of the show is that the guy is a brilliant loser. It's that the life he led in his youth was a waste. And that the settling down into a career is to be desired.
But to me, that life of adventure, of moving about with no commitments, seemed less like a cautionary tale and more of... well... a dream come true.
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